Men who eat chicken risk going bald, says Evo Morales

Evo Morales, the Bolivian President, has said men should stay away from
chicken if they want to maintain their hair and virility.

Bolivian President Evo MoralesPhoto: REUTERS

8:44PM BST 20 Apr 2010

Mr Morales told an environmental conference that chicken producers inject the birds with female hormones "and because of that, men who consume them have problems being men."

He also suggested eating too much chicken for too long could make men go bald, while he also criticised "the west", a reference to industrial countries such as the US, which he said "bring us more and more poison".

Mr Morales' warning may be out of date: Chicken producers in Europe, the United States and many other countries say they abandoned the use of hormones in poultry several decades ago and many if not most Western nations ban them outright.